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@grrlcalledjames @La__Rain English libel laws are not favourable to you in this situation.

@grrlcalledjames @La__Rain Pure slander.

Not to mention the bizarre conflation of writers' right to payment with their right to profit from MECW. Rentiers gonna seek rent.

Singing the virtues of the "public" academic library makes it look like L&W have had their heads firmly buried for the past few years.

Oh fuck right off: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/collected_works_statement.html …

@glittercrisis We've all dated those people / people who become those people. It makes one feel better about life choices, certainly.

-partly- owned that is, on all the pre-1991 translations.

oh so apparently the copyright is actually owned by the long defunct Progress Publishers, Moscow. I hope @marxists_org are aware of this...

@novaramedia there's a browsable html archive here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4450094/marxandengles.zip …

@RooftopJaxx I don't think they did historically? Communist Party did. Possibly post-USSR they bore some of it. Still barbaric though.

@demoboroi It's just a stupid strategy -- the only possible effect it could have on MECW purchases is negative.

http://Marxists.org -full_english_language_archive.zip 9.85 GB http://kickass.to/marxists-org-full-english-language-archive-t5260948.html …

Assiduous copyrighting of dead communists' work, besides being completely barbaric, is also something of a Canute moment. Won't work.

There is a pdf of volumes 1-47 of MECW here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8ucud101l6kfmra/MECW+1-47.pdf …

Intellectual rentierism of the worst sort. And pointless - no one is going to buy an MECW because of the takedown. Absurd.

Absolutely inexcusable for Lawrence & Wishart to force Marxist Internet Archive to take down MECW. Parasites!

@databaseanimal Who claims this? Have I missed something particularly noxious?

Gherkin in a nutshell: the loan's in swiss francs, the building is valued in sterling.Swiss franc has gone one way, £ the other

Holy shit! The Gherkin's in receivership! Deloitte appointed. More to follow.

@spitzenprodukte At this moment, I am thankful for NLR's relatively lax pursuit of online copyright violations.